powerpc/ptrace: Fix brk.len used uninitialised

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Tue Mar 12 13:42:49 EST 2013


With some CONFIGS it's possible that in ppc_set_hwdebug, brk.len is
uninitialised before being used.  It has been reported that GCC 4.2 will
produce the following error in this case:

  arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:1479: warning: 'brk.len' is used uninitialized in this function
  arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c:1381: note: 'brk.len' was declared here

This patch corrects this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>
Reported-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm at macqel.be>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
index 245c1b6..f9b30c6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1428,6 +1428,7 @@ static long ppc_set_hwdebug(struct task_struct *child,
 
 	brk.address = bp_info->addr & ~7UL;
 	brk.type = HW_BRK_TYPE_TRANSLATE;
+	brk.len = 8;
 	if (bp_info->trigger_type & PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_READ)
 		brk.type |= HW_BRK_TYPE_READ;
 	if (bp_info->trigger_type & PPC_BREAKPOINT_TRIGGER_WRITE)


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